User talk:Natoboo

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Statuto Albertino
Hi, and welcome to Wikisource.

Regarding your addition of Statuto Albertino… What is the source of this work? What is its copyright status and licensing terms? Who is the author of this work?

I have posted some links above that explain how Wikisource works, what kinds of things we include, our house style, and some guidance on editing. Please let me know if you need assistance. --Xover (talk) 15:15, 10 August 2019 (UTC)


 * I have uploaded the original document from which I transcribed the Statuto Albertino, how do I connect it to the transcription? Here is the link to the Wikimieda file page, though it may be broken on account of the fact that I forgot to retitle the file (and have since submitted a rename request). If the rename request has already gone through, then the filename will be Constitution of the Kingdom of Italy.djvu Natoboo (talk) 01:30, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
 * I see that the rename has been effectuated over at Wikimedia Commons. The short-ish version of how this works is as follows:Files uploaded to Wikimedia Commons are visible as files (and can be used on pages just like local files) on all the Wikimedia projects (i.e. the various language versions of Wikipedia or of Wikisource). Here on Wikisource the Mediawiki installation has a special extension (called ProofreadPage) that provides functionality specifically to support transcribing and hosting written works (books, magazines, etc.).Once the file exists we can create a page in the Index: namespace with the same name as the file. In this case that would be Index:Constitution of the kingdom of Italy.djvu. Based on the identical filename the software will figure out that the file and the index page are connected (and will even pre-fill some of the fields with information fetched from the file's description page at Commons). An index page is a special wiki page that is presented as a form to fill out, with fields for giving the author, the title, the year of publication, and so forth. It has several other special features, but the most important for this case is the "Pages" field, which should be prefilled with an (empty)  tag.The   tag is a way to tell the software what the logical page name or number is for each physical page in the DjVu or PDF file. For instance, the page in a book that is labelled "1" is usually not on the first page of the PDF/DjVU file. The   tag is the way we tell the software about the mapping. There is an example of its use and syntax on Help:Beginner's guide to Index: files.Once that is done, each page of the work is transcribed on its own page in the Page: namespace. Each page will be linked on the Index page based on the pagelist you provide.Finally we transclude (roughly: "concatenate") the transcribed pages onto Statuto Albertino using the   tag.I know this sounds kinda complicated, but once you wrap your head around it (it took me a long time to grasp it, so don't be discouraged if it sounds confusing at first) it is actually quite logical. This way of doing things has the advantage of keeping the transcribed text with the original scan for easy verification, and it lets us transclude the same pages into multiple places if needed.Please let me know if you have questions or need assistance with anything. --Xover (talk) 18:38, 11 August 2019 (UTC)